Category : Technology

Import your favourite tracks and follow those chords with CAPO Touch
CAPO Touch, the iOS version of popular Mac App CAPO, arrived this week and the good news is – it rocks.
For budding guitarists, the road to mastering this iconic instrument is long and arduous. Whether we take formal lessons or not, we all ...

Mark Billen asks whether a consumer switch to more passive, touchscreen-based devices could endanger the development of future developers.
Are devices like iPad too passive for encouraging hobbyist developers?
Perhaps I’m already reaching the age where my outlook is hampered by dewy-eyed nostalgia. A hankeri...

What Google Maps’ satellite view would look like if they replaced land with meat
The brand of spam we have to endure across Twitter and Facebook etc demands reclassification. Surely it’s high time for us to re-can that hamm?
Wherever there’s an opportunity for adverts, marketeers will exploit...

I don’t want to get drunk on power, I just want the authority ban web stuff I don’t like. Such as noisy websites… ok, peasants?
I was thinking about something the other day. Nothing too remarkable to blog in itself, I tend to do it most days – whether I want to or not.
However this was specific...

Condemned to floating lonely within my Trash can – poetic isn’t it?
This might actually be a bit overdue but something quite symbolic happened the other day. I consciously removed Adobe Flash from my Mac dock.
There was a time during my stint as editor of Web Designer magazine that I promised myself I&...

WordPress 3.5 or “Elvin” has now launched with a new media upload client, retina display support, a new theme and some nifty developer tools
The new WordPress 3.5 update, named by the developers as “Elvin” (in honour of jazz drummer Elvin Jones) is now available to bloggers. Key enhance...